‘White Board’ Quitter Was a Hoax

Just please don’t tell us that Steven Slater was a hoax too: The photographs that circulated the Internet on Monday showing a young woman named “Jenny” quitting her job via dry-erase-board messages are too good to be true. “Jenny,” who complained on the board about her boss’s bad breath, sexism, and videogame addiction, turns out to be an actress named Elyse Porterfield who was hired by the website TheChive.com. Elyse revealed her real identity in a new set of white-board photos, in which she says “the last 24 hours have been surreal” and “I’ve had a blast.” TheChive.com has pulled many hoaxes before, as Peter Kafka pointed out yesterday, such as the Donald Trump $10,000 tip.